Week 2
University of East Anglia. "Over-hunting threatens Amazonian forest carbon stocks." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 January 2016. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160125155741.htm>.

Over-chasing large mammals in tropical woods could cause negative  environmental change. Tropical forests overall store more than 460 billion tons of carbon. Analysts concentrated on the effect of over-chasing on carbon stockpiling over the Amazon - the biggest woodland on Earth. They found that effect could be huge: an anticipated 313 billion kilograms of carbon not being ingested. The economic  estimation of such a loss in worldwide carbon markets could cost US$13.7 trillion.

Overhunting affects the environment very bad since it damages the food chains and food webs. I have just learned about a damage  about the carbon stocks however I can truly relate why the absence of creatures in secondary or tertiary trophic levels will cause a decline in the carbon stocks.I relate this with the second topic of our curriculum since we have covereed how living things are related to each other and NPP,GPP, CO2 release of organisms. I think the overhunting can only be gone with restriction and strict rules, taxes, punishments.